Whole Soul Healing with Rachel

Home
Canada
Calgary, AB
Whole Soul Healing with Rachel

Welcome to Whole Soul Healing!

I created Whole Soul Healing to be a space for people to continue on their unique path of healing.This page will have information about al of the events, series, and workshops I am offering online and in person.

11/07/2025

Come back to me. I’ll wait for you. I love you.

Those were the last words I shared with Chicken before she crossed the rainbow bridge. My sweet soul dog.

She’s home.

She listened and she came back as soon as she could. I knew it was her as soon as I saw her. When I held her my heart felt a peace it hadn’t known for months. My girl couldn’t be away and came back as soon as she could.

I am navigating this space where my heart is breaking and full at the same time and I am working to sit with all the feelings.

I love Chicken. I love Daphne.

Daphne’s presence is a reminder that Chicken is gone, her soul has come back in this new form but my little bird as I knew her is gone.

There is a sadness attached to this love. There is the knowing of the grief that lies on the other side. There is knowing that grief will always be the outcome of this love and that is hard to hold. But then I hold her and she snuggles in and I know this love is worthy of this pain.

Soul dog so hard they come back again and again. 💜

10/21/2025

Sweet Wally doggins.

This sweet boy has brought so much love to a heart that felt like it would never be whole. My little guy. He always shows up with his cute little face and personality to make me smile.

We’ve found a routine and a rhythm him and I. The two of us are continuing to figure out what life without Chicken is like.

Though my heart still aches for my sweet girl there is a fullness that comes from spending time with Wally. I am trying to give him all the best things I can and spend all the time I can with him.

As we prepare for new puppy to join the family I find a little sadness creeping in as this time of just Wally and I will shift. I know this little pup is meant for us and I know Wally will thrive with her and yet I notice a gentle sadness, a grieving of the time Wally and I have now. I am working on sitting with this sadness, this grief, with the sense of knowing that all beginnings come from an end. While we can celebrate the beginning it is equally important to grieve the end.

I work to cherish these final few weeks of just me and my guy while looking forward to brining new baby home and holding space for the grief that I feel about this chapter closing.

Wherever you are in life there will always be a spectrum of feelings. Some feelings we create stories around which makes it more difficult to lean into them. Grieving the end of anything in no way detracts from the excitement you feel about the beginning, and actually allows for you to fully experience the moment.

Allow space for all your feels. They all deserve a seat at the table 💜

10/02/2025

✨Pause 🌹

Each season offers lessons Autumn offers us the space to pause. It is meant to be a time to slow down, to look back at the harvest from summer and be still.

It can be difficult to honour stillness, it can feel like a pause is a waste of precious time. When we pause, we have the space to look back, to see what supported us, what hindered us and what we want more or less of. If we never pause we risk continuing to engage in the same unfulfilling patterns over and over again because we haven’t taken the time to look and see if those patterns are working or not. Taking a pause aids in ensuring we get more out of life because it allows the space to take inventory of what is aligned and what no longer serves.

I often catch myself rushing, and in this society it is hard not to rush. My old office had a beautiful garden in the back that I often rushed by at the end of the day. My last week there I took a pause daily in the garden. I took a moment to literally smell the roses (my favourite scent) and just be.

As I lingered in the garden I wished I would have taken more time for stillness there before. I know we can’t go back and I know we can learn from what was. So I am choosing to learn. I write this post with a post bath little Wally dog curled up on my lap snoozing. And I sit in this space enjoying this pause with him. I can’t give myself more time with the roses that I loved so much but I can watch how I move through life to ensure that I can create room to pause and enjoy this live rather than just rush through it.

09/30/2025

3 months.

My heart still can’t believe it’s been three months since I held these little toe beans.

Missing my little bird and learning to live with the grief of losing her has been quite the journey.

Working on remembering the blessing it is to have something to miss so much.

Until we meet again sweet bean 💜

09/17/2025

Ladybugs 🐞

I have seen so many ladybugs in the past week. They are everywhere.

I looked through my decks but didn’t find any cards about ladybugs so I did a little digging.

There are many associations with ladybugs depending on the lens you look through. The one that stood out to me because I am living it is renewal and new beginnings.

Ladybugs are a sign or renewal and new beginnings. For me this aligns. The summer brought a lot of upheaval and change. As we begin to embrace fall I strive to embrace these changes, this newness.

This is the year of endings, and I have experienced many endings these past few months. I work to sit with the pain and grief endings bring while being hopeful for what new beginning will emerge.

Change is challenging. We like what we know even if it doesn’t feel good. When I see the ladybugs I remind myself these shifts may be hard and something new awaits on the other side.

08/31/2025

2 months.

2 months of missing you.

It’s hard to imagine this will be the rest of my life, missing her. The 14 years I had with her is worth the hurt of losing her and living without her.

My little bird. My sweet little bean. 💜

08/29/2025

June was a heck of a month.

June 1 I noticed a little bump on my bottom eyelid, it was sore but I thought I was just getting a stye. By the end of the day I was starting to get a red patch on my check. Again I didn’t think too much of the red patch because so far I have not gotten the full butterfly flush from lupus I’ve only gotten a half butterfly and thought that’s all this was because of the stye.

The next morning I woke up and my whole right side of my face was swollen so much so it was difficult to move my eye and impeding my vision.

I wasn’t able to get into the doctor until June 5 when I took the top photo. My doctor was concerned that I had a skin infection that had spread to my eye and sent me to emergency. The ER doctor told me I had shingles and because of the proximity to my eye it was a concern. Thankfully my eye was ok and the shingles didn’t spread to my eye.

Things got worse before they got better and I was left with some pretty deep scars as a result. To say I was upset would be an understatement. Every where I went I could feel people staring and I was so self conscious.

I started working with at the end of June. Emily is beyond amazing. She provided treatments and home care to aid in my healing. She told me what products to use and which ones to avoid. I don’t have words for how grateful I am to her for saving my face. Not only did she work to improve the aesthetic of my face, she understood and held space for the mental load the whole experience had on me. She is so kind and compassionate and you can feel that energy by just being around her.

Emily is incredible. She goes above and beyond by checking in and reminding me how far we had come with progress pictures.

I truly have no words and thank you will never be enough but thank you Emily 💜

Address

Calgary
Calgary, AB
T3M1T9

Website

https://www.wholesoulhealing.ca/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Whole Soul Healing with Rachel posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Whole Soul Healing with Rachel:

Shortcuts

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Calgary?